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Aired on 01/07, an anime based on a popular MMORPG 'Master of Epic' or Moepic. Animation by GONZO.

This is a real oddity, to say the least. I was expecting a fantasy adventure, instead this is an oddball comedy sketch show set inside the RPG world. Basically it's a parody, lampooning the conventions of RPGs with some subtle and not so subtle humour. The first ep is broken into three main stories...

Spoiler:

...after a brief intro, hosted by two elves (a Deedlit clone and one that looks like Negi the Elf), the first story 'Friends' is a touching tale about two woefully generic RPG characters (a knight and the warrior girl from the picture above) and their impossible love (and desire to level up). There's some excellent gags in this part highlighting the absurdities of RPG conventions such as eating in cafes after battling monsters, unarmed fighting when you lose your weapon, healing and levelling up. This part also has the best animation in the show, which is quite shiny in some places especially the griffin battle.

The second story, the shortest and the funniest, is about the pitfalls of finding food in an RPG. Proving that fishing is complete waste of time. Needless to say I felt very sorry for the bat

Third story introduces a band of rampaging elf lolis called War Ages (accompanied by Fizzgig!) that strike fear into the heart of anyone unfortunate to cross their path with their hideous singing (I assume it's meant to sound that bad?) and combat skills. They're like Baka Rangers on crack. Admittedly I was baffled by this whole sketch, but it was fun nonetheless. War Age Black though deserves her own show.

The funniest thing is all these characters in each of the sketches are based on a handful of generic templates introduced early on (in the intro skit you even see them training them ). Each have slightly different hair colour and clothes (and occasionally masks) which makes the whole thing hilarious to watch as you spot the generics reused again and again, just like a real RPG. I expect a future episode to have these characters musing on their hopeless existence as they wander the game world in search of an identity.

As ever, screenshots:

There's probably a slim chance of this getting subbed any time soon, which is a pity as it's got some great gags in it. Unfortunately some of the jokes and sketches (like the intro and the wierd Japanese businessmen) I didn't get at all. Maybe a group will pick this up. Certainly if you like comedy shows or oddities with off-the-wall humour, check it out.

I was wondering why no one had discussed this... The first ep. was totally weird, but in a good way. This seems like a show that will be passed over for a few weeks/months, which is sad because I'd love to see it subbed.

totally wierd isnt the word O.o it totally flew over my head a couple of miles up ~ took me a while to realize that it is based on an RPG as i was going wtf? over what was happening...the little sketches was cool and it reminded me of the long addictive drug that ive put down (WoW) ~ and the intro to the 5 chibi elves...that killed me XD randomness...

this one caught me off-guard with its randomness. I had to take another look. Then I've watched the first episode about 5 times (and "warageccha 5" about 10 times), still baffled. The humor is really imbecile, but this is also addicting for me. I'm going to keep watching this show until raw-releasers are fed up with it (seems like no way it's going to get fansubbed or licensed).

Woah, this certainly is rather random, but I like it. Similar to .HACK, but I personally think this is more entertaining . The entire episode seems like a bunch of short length fanfics thrown together, plus it's animated (love the vivid backgrounds). Since I enjoy MMORPG fanfics, I think I'll stick with this one for a while.

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I can understand if no one subs this, cause it looks like Kare Kano all over again. Just the first episode had more text to translate (and don't mention the typesetting!) than a number of episodes of any "regular" anime.

A new fansub group called EPIC fansubs started with episode 1 of this and for a new group, I thought that their effort was pretty good!

The only quibbles I have is that they try to find a better quality raw (but I understand if they can't), and that the font size for the main subtitles be smaller (the style and color is fine, but it's just too big... maybe the same size as the karoke would be better).

Well there are 1280x720 raws floating arond so hopefully they can make use of those. In any case I've been watching this raw mostly while waiting for a sub. Over all I like it, but I can say there are times I find myself wishing for certain characters to appear again. Some have while others have not.

I will admit that yes I rather enjoy the Waragecha 5 segments of the series. That group is just awesome. I'm also rather fond of Angelica (At least I think that's her name) who appears in episode 03. Not sure about the name of the green haired girl with her. Still part of the fun is seeing what the current characters of each episode are up to.

I watched the fansub and thought it could have been better if the short stories were less random, and if the newscast angle had been used to better effect in introducing viewers to the game and serving as a lead-in to tie each of the short stories together.

Chuckle, I'd agree with the previous comment by Kaoru Chujo...Elf rangers ftw. I started laughing when the rescued players went to thank the five heroic girls who saved them, and the girls were busy looting the bodies of the bandits they had just defeated.

It seems they've been building up the progress of the Waragecha Five group with each episode save for episode five where they were absent, but they made up for that in episode 06. In any case here goes.

Spoiler for Waragecha Five through the first eight episodes:

Episode 01 has them introduced as heroes who then quickly loot the bandits. In episode 02 the five seem to be debating about going to an area and ultimately decide again. 03 allows us to see them in different outfits aka class change. Episode 04 gives us the rescue a fellow member episode. While 05 gives us nothing.

Still in episode 06 they get new outfits. Finally the sentai group can actually transform. Of course they just have to pose repeatedly in them. A new villain in a giant robot emerges to attacks our heroes. Time for the dramatic battle to starts. However it's to be continued, but thankfully in the same episode where they beat the crap out of the guy.

In episode 07 the guy tries again with another robot. As expected he gets owned. Heck Yellow simply throws a rock at him to make his robot fall apart. Either the damage before was too much or the robot was sadder than one would expect.

Ah episode 08 it seems that thanks to Warage Green the group will have their own super robot. Which seems to be a combiner given that later in the episode separate vehicles end up appearing. Granted before they could take these things to battle our stubborn guy again the episode is to be continued and this time for real. I'll have to wait for episode 09 for the result

it's nice to see an anime using its sizeable powers of satire/randomness for the social good. perhaps it's the old cynic in me, but I'm glad to see someone turn the screws on the RPG motif; too often it flows in the other direction, action adventure fantastic voyages working the cheap thrill of accomplishment from beating up straw-man villains, cf. level-UP-u! better to work the hipster thrill of mocking the rube thrill until it plays out. and then have a serious moment of praying for the rubes' souls, before snapping out of it to laugh at them again.

The references to MMORPGs are often unusually witty. I loved the two characters going on a quest for some nori. The news report about how someone left their pet elephant in front of the door to the bank was also spot on.

Given the popularity of WoW, etc. I wonder why this title isn't more popular.